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1. International socialist organizations (many links to other sites with documents, statements, resources, contact addresses, campaigns, etc.)
Socialist International (SI) is a worldwide forum for socialist, social democratic, and labor parties (in English, French, Spanish)
www.socialistinternational.org/main.html
Socialist International member, consultative, and observer parties (141) are listed here by region (many with website links):
www.socialistinternational.org/2Members/backeng.html
NOTE: DSA's International Commission maintains close relations to the following sister parties:
Brazil's Partido dos Trabalhadores (in Portuguese) - www.pt.org.br
Britain's Labour Party - www.labour.org.uk
Canada's New Democratic Party (in English and French) - www.ndp.ca
France's Parti socialiste francais (in French) - www.parti-socialiste.fr/
Fondation Jean Jaures - http://fondatn7.alias.domicile.fr/affiche_site.php4
Germany's Sozialdemokratische Partei (in German) - www.spd.de
SPD's party journal - www.vorwaerts.de
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (SPD's foundation)
- www.fes.de (in German)
- www.fesdc.org (in English)
Mexico's Partido de la Revolucion Democratica (in Spanish) - www.prd.org.mx
Socialist International Women, representing over 130 women's organisations affiliated with socialist, social democratic, and labor parties (in English, French, Spanish)
www.socintwomen.org.uk
List of leftist political parties and organizations around the world
www.broadleft.org
Party of the European Socialists (PES), established in 1957 and now an umbrella organization for 20 socialist, social-democratic, and labor parties from 15 European Union member states (in English, French, German, Spanish)
www.eurosocialists.org
The International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) includes 135 socialist, social democratic, and labor youth organisations from 100 countries (in English, Spanish, French)
www.iusy.org
International League of Religious Socialists (ILRS), representing socialists of different faiths in the world's socialist, social democratic, and labor parties (English, French, German, Spanish)
www.ilrs.org
2. Information on socialism around the world:
Andrew Hammer's www.socialist.org
with links to media, parties, and organizations representing democratic-socialist views
Znet: www.zmag.org/weluser.htm
a community of people committed to social change (news updates of interest to progressives and numerous links)
NOTE: click on 'languages' in left-hand menu for selected translations into Spanish, Italian, German, Turkish/Kurdish, Japanese, Czech/Slovak, French, Norwegian, Bulgarian, Swedish
Jay's Left and Progressive Internet Resources Directory: www.neravt.com/left/
directed at anti-war, anti-imperialist, anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-homophobic people who want to fight back
Medialens, a British media-watch website with a progressive perspective
www.medialens.org
Ganashakti Online, India's Marxist portal from Calcutta
www.ganashakti.com
3. Online Journals (a small selection of alternative and left voices on the net):
North American selections
Briarpatch www.briarpatchmagazine.com
Saskatchewan's social-democratic news magazine, serving all of Canada
Canadian Dimension www.canadiandimension.com
independent, bi-monthly Left forum for Canada
Dissent www.dissentmagazine.org
quarterly magazine of independent social through, politics and culture for the Left
Dollars and Sense www.dollarsandsense.org
magazine of economic justice in the USA
In These Times www.inthesetimes.com
US national activists' bi-weekly published in Chicago
Labor Notes www.labornotes.org
voice of union activism in the USA
The Nation www.thenation.com
non partisan essays on political and social questions from an American Left perspective
New Politics www.newpol.org
focussing on the centrality of democracy to socialism and on the need to rely on mass movements from below for progressive social transformation
The Progressive, www.progressive.org
since 1909 a voice for peace and social justice at home and abroad
Z Magazine www.zmag.org/ZMagSite/curTOC.htm
independent, monthly left voice from the USA
Non North American selections
Granma International www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html
international news and analysis from Cuba (Spanish, English, French, Italian, and Portuguese versions)
Le Monde diplomatique, www.monde-diplomatique.fr
France's progressive, international political monthly
(English-language edition) www.mondediplo.com
New Left Review www.newleftreview.net
Britain's bi-monthly journal of and for the international Left (with Spanish, Portuguese, and Turkish print editions)
Rebelion - Internacional www.rebelion.org/internacional.html
Spanish-language alternative news and media coverage
www.rebelion.org/directorio.php
(directory of progressive Spanish and Latin American online news and media sources)
4. Contacts in the USA:
Progressive, left, and alternative bookstores (alphabetical by city)
Baltimore, Maryland: Black Planet Radical Bookstore www.infoshop.org/news_archive/blackplanet.html
Boston, Massachusetts: Trident Booksellers, 338 Newberry St.
www.tridentbookscafe.com
Boston, Massachusetts: Lucy Parsons Center
www.lucyparsons.org
Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Internationalist Books
www.internationalistbooks.org
Chicago, Illinois: Revolution Books, 1103 N. Ashland
www.centerstage.net/literature/bookstores/revolution.html
Chicago, Illinois: New World Resource Center
www.newworldresourcecenter.com
La Jolla (San Diego), California: Groundworks
groundwork.ucsd.edu/Welcome.html
Madison, Wisconsin: Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative
www.rainbowbookstore.org
Manhattan (New York City), New York: Papyrus Books, 2915 Broadway, Tel. (212) 222-3350
Manhattan (New York City), New York: Revolution Books, 9 W. 19th St., Tel. (212) 691-3345
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Arise Bookstore
www.arisebookstore.org
Oakland, California: AK Press
www.akpress.org
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Wooden Shoe Books
www.woodenshoebooks.com/home.html
(scroll down for list of many other alternative and progressive bookstores in the USA)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: House of Our Own, 3920 Spruce St., Tel. (215) 222-1576
Portland, Oregon: Powell's Books
www.powells.com/info/storeinformation.html
St. Louis, Missouri: Left Bank Books
www.left-bank.com
San Francisco, California: Modern Times Bookstore
www.mtbs.com
Washington, D.C.: Brian MacKenzie Infoshop
www.dcinfoshop.org
Public and community radio stations (the websites of some broadcasters include community calendars and canned or live programs streamed into the internet)
Pacifica Radio Foundation, with a long tradition of progressive programming, is a consortium of five independent stations located in Berkeley, Los Angeles, Houston, New York City, and Washington, D.C.
www.pacifica.org/stations/index.html
Map of Eastern Pacifica affiliates
www.pacifica.org/stations/affiliates_east.html
Map of Western Pacifica affiliates
www.pacifica.org/stations/affiliates_west.html
Alternative Radio, produced in Boulder (Colorado), is a weekly one-hour public affairs program carried by public radio stations in the U.S., Canada, Europe, South Africa, Australia, and via shortwave on Radio for Peace International. AR provides information, analyses and views that are frequently ignored or distorted in other media.
www.alternativeradio.org
5. International labor
IWW (Industrial Workers of the World, the 'Wobblies')
www.iww.org
with sister organizations in Australia (www.iww.org.au), Canada (www.iww.ca), and the British Isles (www.iww.org.uk)
The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) is an umbrella organization created in 1949 that includes now 251 affiliate organizations (in English, French, Spanish)
www.icftu.org
Global Unions
www.global-unions.org
6. Other links
'Die Internationale' (2000), a 30-minute documentary film by Peter Miller, available from Icarus / First Run Films (New York City)
www.frif.com/new2000/int.html
Rednet, portal for Communist party news and links from around the world
www.reddfish.co.nz/SPA/RedNet/default.htm
Fighting fascism on and off the Internet
http://www.antifa.net/
(updated December 2007)